Abstract
This study examines the influence of social capital on leveraged buyout (LBO) investments. Exploiting proprietary global private equity data at the investment-level for leveraged buyouts, we find that alumni of Harvard's MBA program are more inclined to co-invest and form syndicates in LBO with each another. The phenomenon of Crimson pairing manifests in deals that involve uneven investments in co-investor capital, necessitating trust to alleviate agency costs and enabling investors to diversify their portfolios. The outcome of Crimson pairing is an increase in value and investment returns relative to all other typical LBO syndication partnerships.
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